The Latin American international investment and insurance marketplace is one of the fastest-growing in the world, with the demand for protection of assets amid volatile political and economic backdrops as necessary in 2020 as it ever was.
Across the Latin American region, the need for both products and advice is on the rise.
The inaugural International Investment Latin America Forum will look at where the industry is heading, the challenges and opportunities for the industry in the region, and how advisers, brokers and product providers are adapting to political and regulatory changes.The event will take place on Tuesday, 6th June , Miami.

The inaugural International Investment London Forum will look at where the industry is heading, the challenges and opportunities for the industry in the region, and how advisers, brokers and product providers are adapting to political and regulatory changes.The event will take place on Thursday, 30th April at the South Place Hotel, London.

The 21st International Investment Awards will take place on 8th October 2020, at One Whitehall Place, London. The II Awards are the longest-running event of their kind and last year saw a record number of categories and entries.

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France GDP’s non growth in Q2 is mostly due to a slowdown in household consumption expenditure (0.0%) after a dynamic first quarter (+1.2%), while total gross fixed capital formation dropped (-0.4% after +1.3%).

Goods (0.0% after +1.5%) and services (-0.1% after +0.7%) were both impacted. Insee observed that expenditure on housing equipment kept increasing while car purchases dropped.

“Consumption of food products sharply declined (-0.7% after +0.4%). Downturn in household consumption of services was due to repercussion of buying tickets for football Euro 2016 in Q1 and to a decline in spending on accommodation and food. By contrast, energy consumption barely slowed down (+1.4% after +1.7%),” Insee noted.

Imports significantly slumped (-1.3% after +0.5%), in particular these of manufactured goods and raw hydrocarbons, while exports slightly declined (-0.3% as in Q1).

A modest decrease has been stressed in production of goods and services (-0.2% after +0.7%) while the output in manufactured goods sharply dropped (-1.0% after 0.0%) “primarily due to a slump in refineries output, affected by social movements in May and June.”

“Production in construction also declined (-0.6% after +0.3%). In market services, it was stable (0.0% after +1.1%) while energy production decelerated (+0.5% after +1.0%),” Insee said.

Investments in construction decreased (-0.4% after +0.4%), as well as in manufactured goods (-0.9% after +3.5%) and in market services (-0.2% after +1.1%).

Overall, France’s foreign trade balance has had a positive contribution to the country’s GDP in Q2 (+0.3% after -0.2%).